Tighten your databases
Lock down RDS: private subnets, IAM auth, custom ports and logging.
Lessons in this path
- 1 Compliance AWS
Enable RDS Enhanced Monitoring
Security Hub RDS.6 — default CloudWatch shows hypervisor-level metrics. Enhanced Monitoring exposes OS-level CPU, memory, and disk granularity.
10 min - 2 Compliance AWS
Deploy across multiple Availability Zones
One capability across databases, caches, load balancers, file systems, search domains and serverless: make sure no single Availability Zone outage can take a production workload down.
14 min - 3 Compliance AWS
Harden database auth, ports and access
One capability across RDS, Aurora, Neptune, DocumentDB, OpenSearch, Redshift and DMS: stop relying on default admin names and static passwords, move authentication onto IAM, and make sure the audit trail and network placement do not leave the door ajar.
15 min - 4 Compliance AWS
Move resources into private networks (VPC isolation)
One capability across databases, search, serverless and EC2: put workloads inside private VPC subnets and reach AWS services privately, so nothing depends on a route to the public internet.
14 min - 5 Compliance AWS
Harden security groups and restrict ingress
One capability across EC2, RDS, Redshift and network ACLs: stop firewall rules from opening administrative and data-tier ports to the whole internet, and keep default and unused rules from accumulating.
14 min - 6 Compliance AWS
Enable database audit and log exports
One capability across RDS, Aurora, Redshift and OpenSearch: make every managed data store ship its audit and engine logs off the instance to CloudWatch or S3, so you keep a durable record of who connected and what ran.
14 min - 7 Compliance AWS
Encrypt AWS databases at rest
One capability across RDS, Aurora, DocumentDB, Neptune, Redshift, DynamoDB, ElastiCache and OpenSearch: make sure the data on disk, and in every snapshot it produces, is encrypted with a KMS key rather than stored in the clear.
14 min